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They pump water, they turn machinery to grind grain into flour, they generate electricity. Those tall structures with the whirling blades always stand out, and some people have saved older ones either singly or in groups.

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Iowa
Audubon
Nathanial Hamlin Museum
mail: 210 E Division, Audubon 50025
Audubon IA
Phone 712 563-3984
Alt Phone 712 563-2516
Web Site http://www.auduboncounty.org/
E-mail mailto://exxtian@metc.net/
Description farm museum holds 18 farm windmills, nature area, elk
Type of Resource Museum
Building Type Windmill
Owner/Operator: Audubon County Historical Society

Elk Horn

Danish Windmill Corporation

4038 Main St

PO Box 245

Elk Horn IA 51531

Web Site http://www.danishwindmill.com/

Toll Free 800 451-7960

E-mail mailto:info@danishwindmill.com

Description Danish windmill, moved to this country in 1976

Type of Resource Historic Place

Building Type Windmill

Era 1848

New or Updated: 7/26/2006

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Illinois
Geneva
Fabyan Villa Museum, Dutch Windmill & Japanese Garden
1925 Batavia Avenue
Geneva IL
Phone 630 232-4811
Web Site http://www.co.kane.il.us/forest/fp/fabyan.htm
Description 235 acres of "Riverbank" estate, with Japanese Garden, 69 foot high windmill, and mansion
Type of Resource House Museum
Primary Focus Garden
Building Type Windmill
Owner/Operator: Kane County Forest preserve

Illinois
Golden
Prairie Mills Windmill
902 Prairie Mills Road
Box 148
Golden IL 62339
Phone 217 696-2495
Web Site http://www.windmill.org/mill.html
Description restoration of windmill completed July 2001 -- historical society local museum located near windmill
Type of Resource Historic Place
Primary Focus Industrial
Building Type Windmill
Group Identity German
Era 1872
Owner/Operator: Golden Historical Society
New or Updated: 06/14/2003

Prairie Mills Windmill
902 Prairie Mills Road
Box 148
Golden IL 62339
Phone 217 696-2495
Web Site
Description restoration of windmill completed July 2001 -- historical society local museum located near windmill
Type of Resource Historic Place
Primary Focus Industrial
Building Type Windmill
Group Identity German
Era 1872
Owner/Operator: Golden Historical Society

Illinois
Western Springs
Tower Museum
916 Hillgrove Avenue
Western Springs IL 60558
Phone 708 246-9230
Web Site
Description museum in water tower, exhibits on floors 1&2, children's museum on 3, office & archives in Grand Avenue School
Type of Resource Museum
Primary Focus Local History
Building Type Water Tower
Research/Reading Archives
Owner/Operator: Western Springs Historical Society

Indiana
Kendallville
Mid-America Windmill Museum
732 South Allen Chapel Rd
PO Box 5048
Kendalville IN 46755
Phone 219 347-2334
Web Site www.noblecan.org/~kps/wind/history.html
E-mail mailto:corbake@ligtel.com
Description eight restored windmills, four erected, eight more under restoration
Type of Resource Specialty Museum
Building Type Windmill
Owner/Operator: Kendallville Museum & Historical Society

Sabetha

Albany Museum

Sixth Street, Hwy 75

PO Box 62

Sabetha KS 66534

Phone 785 284-2694

Alt Phone 785 284-3613

Web Site http://www.skyways.org/towns/Sabetha/museums.htm

Description original school, other buildings moved to site including depot with

operating patrol car on track loop, post office, cabin, machinery shed,

blacksmith shop, print shop, additional school

Type of Resource Historic Place

Primary Focus Building Collection

Collection N-Z Windmill

New or Updated: 7/4/2006

TX
Lubbock
American Wind Power Center
1701 Canyon Lake Drive
Lubbock   TX    79403
Phone   806 747-8734
Web Site http://www.windmill.com/
Description over 5 windmills dating back to the 1860s
Type of Resource   Specialty Museum
Building Type   Windmill
New or Updated: 7/8/2004

Miami
American Wind Power Trail
PO Box 481
Miami   TX  79029
Phone   806 868-2094
Web Site http://www.windpowertrail.com/
E-mail mailto:seth@wildsteps.com
Description sites featuring windmills in Oklahoma & Texas
Type of Resource   Tourism Information
Primary Focus Industrial
Building Type   Windmill
New or Updated:   7/8/2004